Policies and practices of SHEA Research Network hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic

To understand hospital policies and practices as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) conducted a survey through the SHEA Research Network (SRN). The survey assessed policies and practices around the optimization of personal protection equipmen...

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Published in:Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2020-10, Vol.41 (10), p.1127-1135
Main Authors: Calderwood, Michael S, Deloney, Valerie M, Anderson, Deverick J, Cheng, Vincent Chi-Chung, Gohil, Shruti, Kwon, Jennie H, Mody, Lona, Monsees, Elizabeth, Vaughn, Valerie M, Wiemken, Timothy L, Ziegler, Matthew J, Lofgren, Eric
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Betacoronavirus
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 diagnostic tests
Cross Infection - prevention & control
Disease transmission
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Health care
Health facilities
Health Personnel - organization & administration
Health Policy
Hospitals
Hospitals - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Infection Control - methods
Infections
Medical supplies
Nursing
Original
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pathogens
Patients
Personal Protective Equipment
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data
Prevention
Respiratory diseases
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:To understand hospital policies and practices as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) conducted a survey through the SHEA Research Network (SRN). The survey assessed policies and practices around the optimization of personal protection equipment (PPE), testing, healthcare personnel policies, visitors of COVID-19 patients in relation to procedures, and types of patients. Overall, 69 individual healthcare facilities responded in the United States and internationally, for a 73% response rate.
ISSN:0899-823X
1559-6834
DOI:10.1017/ice.2020.303